PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Rev. C. H. Grant Cowen recently was granted the M.A. degree of Cambridge. The Rev. J. G. Chapman, formerly of New Plymouth, who has been absent from his duties owing to ill-health, has resumed his ministry at Wellington. The many friends of Mr. J. Meuli will (states the Manaia .Witness) be sorry to hear that he is in hospital in Hawera.

Mr. R. H. Irwin, acting Town Clerk for Eltham. was able to leave his bed for a short while on Sunday, and there was a further slight improvement in his condition yesterday. Probably he will not be able to resume his duties for another two or three weeks.—Argus. A Christchurch telegram reports the death on Sunday of Mr. Edward E. O'Brien, partner in the well-known boot manufacturing firm, M. O'Brien and Co. In the early days he was a prominent footballer. He was a brother of Dr. O'Brien.

Mr. G. F. Whiteliorn, who for nearly eight years has been accountant in the Hawera branch of the Bank of Australasia, has received notice of his transfer to Wanganui in a similar position. Mr. Whiteliorn will be missed in musical and tennis circles. He will be by Mr. L. C. Hawk, teller in the Wanganui office. —Star.

Mr. Henry Steffert, of Inaha, the eldent son of Mr. and Mrs Henry Steffer 4 * of Inalia, was married to Miss Alice' Carmichael, youngest daughter of Mr. and the late Mrs. R. Carmichael, of Te Kuiti, at the Hawera Presbyterian Church on January 14. The bride, who was given away by Mr. James Walker, of Oliangiu, wag accompanied by Miss Alice Frei as bridesmaid, while Mr. Harold Walker aoted aa best man.

A Wellington message repdrts the death on Saturday of Mr. W. S. Reid, formerlySolicitor-General, aged 80. Mr. Reid came out With his family from Scotland to Tasmania in 1852 and was admitted as a barrister in that colony in 1802, On coming to New Zealand three years later he practised for some time on the West Coast, but in 1871 became assistant law officer in Wellington. Later he was appointed . Solicitor-Gen-eral and prepared many important Bills. After his retirement in 1900 he sat on various commissions.

Another of Taranaki's old identities passed away on Saturday in the person of Mr. Peter Allen at the age of 86 years. For a number of years he had worked in the Railway Workshops at Eastown, retiring several years ago. Afterwards he lived with his daughter (Mrs. D. Robb) at Te Kuiti, where he passed peacefully away as stated. The deceased gentleman was a member of the Loyal Egmont Lodge of Oddfellows, which he joined on the 20th May, 1858, and had therefore been a member for nearly 62 years, joining the lodge on the second lodge night after its formatWßi